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IRWIN (Slovenia) at mamuta (talk and presentation)

Wednesday 3rd February at 20:00

Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center

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Due to IRWIN visit to IL for the show at the Digital Art Lab in Holon, Mamuta is glad to host them for a talk and presentation on their last projects

Irwin was founded in Ljubljana, acting within the NSK movement since 1984. The group consisting of painters Dušan Mandic (born Ljubljana, 1954), Miran Mohar (born Novo Mesto, 1958), Andrej Savski (born Ljubljana, 1961), Roman Uranjek (born Trbovlje, 1961) and Borut Vogelnik (born Kranj, 1959). Its work is based on potent eclecticism and the “retro principle,” both as means of realizing the syncretic coexistence of various artistic styles ranging from the tradition of the historical avantgardes, to popular national imagery, to the visual production of the totalitarian regimes. Together with NSK, Irwin established the NSK State in Time in 1992. Their most important activities have included the planing of the NSK Embassies and Consulates in Moscow, Gent and Florence, and the Transnacionala project (Journey from East to West Coast) in 1996. Irwin have exhibited widely in Europe and the USA, including Manifesta in Rotterdam and Ljubljana, Venice Biennial, After the Wall, and Aspects/Positions.

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28.1 | 19:00 | at Cmthq | OFF SERIES 2.1: Vito Acconci

vito_acconci_1Vito Acconci started out as a poet at the New York School and later moved towards performance, sound and video as his main forms of media. His early works were marked as very controversial as he defined boundaries between spaces and people, between performer and spectators. Acconci started out using his body as the medium for his films to convey power, intimacy, and trust to the viewer; subsequently he dealt with interpersonal transactions and the cultural and political implications of the performative space he setup for the camera.

Centers, 1971, 22:43 min. Face-off, 1972, 32:54 min. Open Book, 1974, 9:10 min. Pryings, 1971, 16:16 min.

Total: 81′

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Controlled Image: Talk and Opening Show

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CONTROLLED IMAGE

The Question of Image Control in Poland in the 70s and 80s.

The show deals with the lack of possibilities of creation of legal channels of information at that time, channels alternate to those of the official propaganda, links with the very restricted access to the recording equipment. access to the communication tools guarantees the control over encod- ing reality – the camera is the tool giving sense and meaning.

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curated by Anna Borejczuk, Karolina Harazim, Aleksandra Jach, Agnieszka Kilian.

Talk with Aleksandra Jach and Agnieszka Kilian and Opening of the show: January 20th, 19:30

with the support of the Polish Institute

more info soon

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OFF SERIES 1.5: From the 20s to the 60s American Avant-Garde, Expressionism, Surrealism, and Beat

This program presents an eclectic selection of American avant-garde film from the 1920s to the 1960s, yet focuses on its mainstreams. Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich’s The Life and Death of 9413-A Hollywood Extra, is one of the first avant-garde films created in the USA, inspired by German Expressionist cinema, with a minimal budget of one hundred dollars. The film was shot by legendary photographer Gregg Toland who, thirteen years later shot Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, also represented in this program by a short experimental film he directed in 1934, which was his first film.

Pull My Daisy by photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank (in collaboration with Alfred Leslie) is one of the most quintessential films of the Beat generation, a tour de force of improvisation which flourished in the late 1950s. The film features poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, as well as writer, poet and interdisciplinary artist Jack Kerouac in the voiceover.

The program further presents poet James Broughton’s hippie film The Bed, describing the chronicles of a bed standing in the center of a field, as various nude couples suddenly emerge from between its sheets, and Mass by Bruce Baillie-one of the most important voices of experimental film on the American west coast and among the founders of the San Francisco-based filmmakers cooperative Canyon Cinema specializing since the 1960s in the production of avant-garde films.

Curated and Presented by Chen Sheinberg

Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, The Life and Death of 9413-A                                                                            Hollywood Extra, 1928, 11 min

Orson Welles, The Hearts of Age, 1934, 8 min

Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie, Pull My Daisy, 1959, 29 min

Bruce Baillie, Mass for the Dakota Sioux, 1964, 20 min

James Broughton, The Bed, 1968, 20 min

Total: 88 min


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Calls & Opportunities

3 part-time posts at mamuta (only in hebrew)

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Ubermorgen - Works 1999-2009 + Performance: Superenhanced Generator

6.1.2010 | 20:00 |@mamuta

UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and iconoclastic – of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixel painting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. the permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). “Ubermorgen” is the German word both for “the day after tomorrow” and “super-tomorrow”.

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http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM

In the lecture they will present some of their past projects 1999-2009  and focusing also in the current project they are working on “superenhanced” .

An UBERMORGEN.COM lecture split into two. The first part of the talk will focus on their oeuvre 1999-2009 featuring main projects such as The Election Trilogy including [V]ote-Auction, the EKMRZ Trilogy including GWEI and the Generator Tetralogy with the 2001 Injunction Generator. The second part of the lecture will focus on their 2008-09 research-project “Superenhanced” dealing with Enhanced Interrogations (torture), Child Imprisonment, Extraordinary Renditions, Supermax (high-security prisons) and the interrogation-software “Superenhanced Generator”. They will to tell you about the research, the methodology, the terminology, their artistic approach, the technology, the performances and the personal aspects of this project.

http://superenhanced.com
http://ipnic.org/superenhanced
http://ubermorgen.com/EKMRZ_Trilogy
http://gwei.org
http://ipnic.org/Generator_Trilogy
http://ipnic.org
http://vote-auction.net
http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM
http://tinyurl.com/UM-Amazon-de

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Yuval Kedem - Studio Galileo

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Studio Galileo was stablished by Yuval Kedem in 1994, since then he had worked with artists, film makers and television, providing non conventional solutions for different kind of technical challenges.

He had worked among others with : Yael Bartana, Miri Segal, Hadas Ofrat, Shachar Markus and Einat Amir

Wednesday 23th December, 20:oo, Mamuta @ Bet Daniela Passal, Ein Karem

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OFF series - City Simphonies

Thursday 24th December, 21:30 at the Jerusalem Cinemateque

OFF series: Avant-Garde Films from the Israeli Film Archive

City Symphonies

Curated and presented by Chen Sheinberg

The program presents films with poetic visions of the city :

Rain by Joris Ivens (1929); NY,NY by Francis Thompson (1957), Daybreak Express by

D.A. Pennebaker (1953), Bruce Baillie’s Castro Street (1966), Broadway by Light by William

Klein (1958) and Symphonie mecanique by Jean Mitry (1955).

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Calls & Opportunities

animation workshop - for kids and youth

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Mamuta hosts Sansa Group

Unique experience of creating a REAL ANIMATED FILM!
Children and youth, from 5 to 18 years old, in cooperation with professional artists and experienced methodists will create their own pieces of animation: exploring the secrets of animation techniques, going through all the stages of film creation: from script to screening!
Project participants:
Hosting:
Mamuta, Ein Kerem
Authorship:
Sansa Group: Max Epstein - artist, animator; Olga Goltser - animator, designer.
Methodics:
Yuri and Lina Krasny
Project coordinator:
Vasyl Sribny
For more information, please see the Hebrew page or call  054 8030213, 054 6601869.
Application deadline: Dec.24
Calls & Opportunities

Call for Applications for Artist’s Workspace

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Call for Applications for Artist’s Workspace

Deadline for period January-June is over.

Visual artists,  sound artists, designers, architects, curators, and researchers in the arts, are invited to submit applications for a workspace at Mamuta.

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